The 5th Concept Symposium on Project Governance Valuing the Future - Public Investments and Social Return
20. – 21. September 2012
Symposium web-site: http://www.conceptsymposium.no/
Concept Research Programme: http://www.concept.ntnu.no/english/
Unarmed to the South pole
- a strategy to reach the seemingly unattainable
Cato Zahl Pedersen, Adventurer Norway
The impossible journey
Cato Zahl Pedersen
Unarmed to the South Pole
«A strategy to reach the seemingly unattainable»
I can’t always control what happens,
but I can choose how to cope with it.
South Pole Des 14, 1911
Roald Amundsen, 1872-1928
Terms for Performance
• Intention - Mission
• Talent from birth
• Qualities to achieve
• Criticism – criteria, expectation
• Respect – look after and once more
• Crisis – focus on intention - what to do
Mission
To fight for functionality in lives, in a context where one joins with others to change the social and
political realities of living
This is a challenge for me, and I intend to master it.
Awareness is focusing on what you need to do,
then - do it.
Distance: 1.400 km (870 miles) Elevation: 3.000 meters (9.900 ft) Duration: 56 days (80.640 minutes)
Degrees: From -30ºC (-22.0ºF) to -75ºC (-103.0ºF) Sledge: 120 kg (265 lbs)
Nutrion: 7.000 kcal a day Weightloss 20 kg (44 lbs)
Focus on what you have, rather than what you lack
It depends on us – also to develop
each other.
Take one step at a time.
Think it - and do it.
Negative thinking creates limitations.
Positive thinking open doors to
new opportunities.
I m p o s s i b l e
I’m p o s s i b l e
Expectation;
• if we think new situations are susceptible
• as to whether we think the situation is logical and predictable
• if we believe that the new situations are manageable
Sence of coherence
